2023 IPA Winners: Exploring The Best In Analog Photography (20 Pics)

"Sunkissed Hills unveils a captivating analog film photograph by renowned European photographer Nibera, capturing the majestic beauty of the Slovenian Julian Alps. Bathed in the golden hues of a setting sun, a vibrant mountain range evokes a timeless and nostalgic sentiment. The image exudes serenity, harmony, and stillness, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the tranquil scene. Through expertly composed visuals, Nibera's artistry showcases the enduring power of analog photography, preserving fleeting moments while evoking profound emotions."

"A lone tree at night, surrounded by the spinning stars."

"A colorful children's slide in the mist."

"The sea is a symbol of freedom and natural force, of calm and storm. From the shore, the sea is infinite, like thought and its mental drift. At a time when we are increasingly disconnected from wildlife, these photographs share the experience of feeling and loving the territory through contemplation, creating images that connect with the feeling of infinity and permanence. This series arises from the need to disseminate and promote values of respect, conservation, and sustainability of our seas and oceans through deep, contemplative, and emotional reflection of the territory."

"I came back to the landscape of my childhood three years ago. Also to look for traces in the topography of my family. After the end of the Second World War, my father's and my mother's paths crossed in this landscape along the Oder River. Between the fields, the river makes its way through the plain. He carries my family history with him. Calm and dark, it flows full of memories of itself and the people on its shores. Dark shoals remain hidden. I photographed this series exclusively analog in 6x6 format. To photograph this story digitally would be an anachronism."

"My best friend passed away in 2012. He was also a photographer. His mom asked me to take something usable from his room. I got some films from his room. After that. I went to Hong Kong. I put his film on my camera. This is a photo I took with my first roll. Hong Kong friend told me this is a very rare lucky bird. I got his power I think."

"Models: Weronika Waclawik & Kasia Markiewicz."

"These images belong to a series called The Sonoran Desert, shot in The Saguaro National Park in Tucson Az. My unique artistic style is an expression of creating images in an almost mathematical way, dissecting the subject aesthetics piece by piece, somehow creating an illusion of movement as a consequence of the 35 or more shots taken in the making of the "contact sheet". Therefore, these images all together are seen as a whole and allow the viewer to witness an almost life-size 2D sculpture in a Neo-Cubism fashion."

"Representations of the neighborhoods I was raised in have always been a constant source of tension for me. There are too few opportunities for people of diverse backgrounds to tell their own stories, so stereotypes, some based on truth, but many egregiously exaggerated are able to persist and proliferate. With this project, *Sunset At the Supermarket*, my aim was to re-examine narratives buried deep within the American culture. Sunset at the Supermarket is a collection of portraits intimately depicting the diverse youths of New York City."

"I want to highlight the genuine beauty of relationships and connection through my portraiture."

"The butterfly is a deep and powerful representation of life. In many cultures, butterflies are symbolic and a metaphor representing spiritual transformation. Symbolic for rebirth, change, hope, and balance in life. The transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly mirrors the process of spiritual transformation. The short life of the butterfly serves to remind us life is short. I took this photograph with a vintage Polaroid SX-70 camera from the 70ties. I used a limited edition film with blue and black tones only. I spend many weeks taking very many pictures to get this perfect shot."

"Mr. Tadeusz is a Polish baron who spent his life as a documentary film director. His attempt was to improve the world through the stories he showed. Picture made in wet plate collodion technique on 18x24cm glass plate."

"Book of Light comprises a series of (self-)portraits based on a handful of images that are only slightly different. However, they each have a different frequency and express a different piece of the greater narrative. Each portrait has gone through a series of individual manipulations. All were developed in the darkroom, and printed on unique old papers, some received additional layers while printing. These were digitized and used for photogravures, then printed on delicate washi papers. The portraits came to express different emotions, different moments, a search within the self and the now."

"From a Barbie series, I did where I tried to imagine Barbie more as a retro femme fatale in a noir story using moody lighting and simple backgrounds."

"And you? What do you see? Happiness is just around the corner. Tetrachromacy (from Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chromo, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information or possessing four types of cone cells in the eye. Organisms with tetrachromacy are called tetrachromats."

"4x5 portrait of NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens."

"The editorial entitled “Musing of Boscoe” is influenced by the paintings of the contemporary Trinidadian painter Boscoe Holder. The Black Imagination and utilizing fashion as a vehicle to highlight our culture and to reference ourselves, has led to this collaboration."

"This project is a Visual Photographic Ode to La Danza del Venado (Dance of the Deer). Its objective is to be a cultural magnet among the following cultures; Native American Yaqui, Mestizo, and European, besides rebuilding artistic/cultural bridges between the US and Mexico. The Origins of The Danza del Venado are pre-colonization, it was first discovered during the expedition under command by Diego de Guzman near the Rio Yaqui in the XVI century( Mexico ), however, it is celebrated by other ethnic groups with a few variations in costume and/or style in the Sonora-Arizona."

"The outside world has never been more alluring, calling from the windows, stretching its fingers of light inside and pulling my mind out with it. I talk to my plants, I watch the leaves unfurl. I buy myself flowers from the bodega just to watch them die because their decay maps time in a way that the days of the week no longer do. Plants become my language, a way to speak about human connection and contradiction. Rooting ourselves so deeply that we are stuck, having a desire for the unknown yet finding comfort in routine. We grow together to the point of coming apart. Hopeful, hopeless."

"In the beginning, the intimate sphere. And then an inflated community of circles before the eyes. So much roundness formed a thread of beads, and the essay proceeded in lines where each photograph called upon met the choice of meaning to make meaning exist. By displacing the individuality of the photographs, and giving them to the opening, a story of reciprocal animation occurred, where the breath of one extends into another. Things are alive and dream of us. This essay seeks to imagine its dreams, to venture an invention."